What could be termed as an unexpected move, close to 600 students aspiring to opt for engineering have not taken an IIT seat despite clearing the JEE (Advanced) examination. The joint seat allocation process for admission in IITs and NITs ended on July 12.
The applicants not opting to take admission in the course lead to 591 vacant seats out of the 10,006 seats available in the IITs. These seats will be available to the applicants in the second round of allocation which begins today i.e July 13. In all, 34,000 seats in 85 engineering institutes are on offer in the first-ever IIT-NIT-GFTI joint-seat allocation process.
IIT-Kharagpur, which emerged as the top choice among students receiving as many as 2.5 lakh applications also has 91 vacant seats till now. IIT-Bombay and IIT-Delhi which have always been a favourite among students with higher ranks also have reported 24 and 18 vacant seats after the first round. Last year, 650 seats were vacant in the IITs after the first round.
The major reason why students picked IIT-Kharagpur is apparently due to the interdisciplinary options that the institute offers. The students who have scored below the 300 rank will not get a computer science seat in any of the older IITs, but at Kharagpur, students are allowed to pick up computer-related subjects along with their core subjects.
In an effort to bring more applicants to apply, the IITs extended the round one deadline to midnight on Sunday. The numbers, however, did not change. In the second round of allotment, if an applicant with an NIT sear is allotted an IIT seat, they will have to go to the IIT reporting centre to secure it and vice-versa. If this procedure is not followed, the applicant will lose both seats.
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